A review by rosseroo
Taming The Alien by Ken Bruen

4.0

This slim book picks up a few months after the events of A White Arrest. Southeast London's DI Roberts has been diagnosed with skin cancer while his domestic situation is on life support, DS Brant is more or less recovered from a knifing, and WPC Falls is unexpectedly preggers. Meanwhile, the druggie homeless couple that killed a cop and knifed Brant have fled to the US, the local gangster lord is getting a little peeved with Brant's enthusiasm, a local psycho/hitman called Alien is back on the streets and looking for his ex-wife, and there's a serial arsonist at large. As before, the characters are outsized, the action quite violent, and the dialogue ratatat. Throw all these in a blender of staccato 1 to 3-page chapters, and the result is another Bruen's unique pulps.